 | Riso and Hudson deepen the Enneagram beyond type stickers — levels of development show how the same type looks healthy, average, or destructive, and integration/disintegration lines show stress movement between patterns. Riso (1999) · Bantam · ISBN 9780553378207 |
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Key principles
- Nine types — Habitual attention and motivation patterns — map, not prison.
- Levels of development — Each type spans healthy to pathological expression — level matters more than label.
- Wings and arrows — Neighbour types and stress/security paths — dynamic, not static typing.
- Core motivation — Ask what the type pursues and fears — behaviour is strategy.
- Integration work — Growth moves toward borrowed healthy traits — shame drops when level rises.
- Folk typology boundary — Popular tool, contested science — use for language, not diagnosis.
Core science
Riso–Hudson system is clinical-popular synthesis — widely used in coaching and therapy, limited experimental typology validation. Pair with The Enneagram (Naranjo lineage) for the earlier clinical frame. Atlas hub: Enneagram — treat as pattern vocabulary, not laboratory fact.
Application
Reach when a member is stuck on I am a Four — shift to level and motivation this week. Open Enneagram on the Atlas shelf for the neutral type map.